"Oh God oh God oh God oh God"

Lily was now fully awake, sitting up in James' bed hyperventilating. "Oh god oh go-" James kissed her and suddenly she felt a sudden urge to forget about school and just stay there all day with him. But she had school. School. She pulled away. "Oh God McGonagall's gonna kill me, I'll lose my head girlship or whatever, oh my god I'll be expelled I'll have to go back home, oh God what if my mum finds out why oh I'll never hear the end of it from Petunia, this is such a -"

"lily" James said, sitting down next to her, "breathe." he took deep breaths with her for about 5 minutes and lily giggled and remembered why she liked him so much. But in a few minutes, it wasn't so funny anymore.

"But James, what do we do? We can't do this! It was just a big mistake. Let's just pretend it never happened." Lily was chewing her nails so that they bled. "Ow!" she quickly sat on her hands, wincing in pain.

"OK." James grabbed lily's top and threw it towards her and put on his tie. "lets think. We can't tell anyone that we did this otherwise we're dead. OK. I know for a fact we came later than everyone else in Hogwarts, even the teachers were asleep, so nobody knows. There we go. See. Problem solved." he grinned and leaned in to kiss Lily but she put a finger on his lips and pushed him away.

"Problem solved? She questioned, picking up her muggle jeans (it was what he had worn to the cinema) off the floor and putting it on. "What will I say when my friends ask me where I was last night? What will you say when your friends ask you? And if the teachers catch us doing anything? It's not that simple James. Life isn't that simple."

James thought over this for a moment making the bed and a cup of coffee.

"Well. I can say that I tried to talk to you but you blew me off and I hooked up with a random muggle. Her name was Jean, she had red hair and green eyes and I only went with her because she reminded me of you. You can say that you went to a bar after the film and were with a dark haired guy called Bill. You took the tube back since you couldn't disapparate and you didn't want to wake them. There we go. And any time we want to see each other, we can say that we're going to be with our different people. Is that good enough for you smartypants?" he took her hand and spun her round. Lily suddenly felt really sick.

"Oh god" she spluttered and ran for the bathroom. She vomited, holding her hair back until her stomach was empty and she was shaking.

"oh merlin," James said, taking after Lily, looking worried, "you look like hell. I think you should stay in bed today. Say you've got a muggle bug or something."

"Thank you James," lily sighed, exasperated, "nice to know you think I always look amazing. Anyway, I can't miss school, my friends will guess somethings wrong. I'll just take a pepper up potion." she fished out her blue jumper from a nook and put it on. Meanwhile, James lept up and scrambled through the cupboards. After five minutes of this curious activity, he exclaimed in joy and tried to leap up but since his head was still in the cupboard her hit his head. Lily laughed and James came out face flushed with a small vial in his hand.

"Drink this," he said, handing it to her, "but you can't take the Pepperup potion. They'll counteract and probably blow your head off."

Lily eyes the vial suspiciously, took the cork out, gave it a sniff and gagged.

"What is this, poison? Are you trying to kill me?" she handed the vial back to James but her pressed it back into her hands.

"Shouldn't you know, since your such a wizz at potions? Anyway, it's a non-fertility potion, figured you might need it, just to be on the safe side." Lily eyed him, then the bottle, groaned and knocked it back, making gagging noises long after the vial had been rinsed and put back in its place. When she finally stopped, she looked confused for a second then asked,

"How do you remember so much about last night?"

James was silent, looking down at his feet, and lily stood up. "James? WHY DO YOU KNOW SO MUCH?" she yelled and James ran to cover her mouth.

"Be quiet! You'll wake everyone up and they'll find us!" he hissed.

"I dont care!" Lily retaliated, biting his hand.

If anyone had woken up and went to investigate, they would have seen a topless James in a choke hold thanks to lily, desperately trying to cover her mouth. Sadly, no one stirred.

"Thank merlin," James sighed with relief, finally deciding to put on his shirt. As he did the buttons, he explained, "listen, Lily, try to think. What is the last thing you remember?"

Lily scrounged hard in her brain and when she remembered, she squealed in embarrassment and disgust.

"Ewwwwww, oh god oh god ewwee!"

James smirked as Lily sat down on the bed with and started hyperventilating again, "Just because I'm not exactly clear what exactly your talking about, what did you suggest last night? "

Lily looked as if she was going to throw up again." I suggested coming back here, oh god oh god oh god" she flopped down onto the bed. "I'm such an idiot!" James looked like the cat who caught the cream. Lily's face was the colour of her hair for the third time in 24 hours. rolling his eyes, he sat down on the bed and said,

"come, on, you an idiot? you were just drunk! I think the most sensible of people do the mist stupid of things when they're drunk. chill out," he stood up and produced a thin cloak from under his bed, " just use this to get into your dormitory without anyone seeing and you can give it back to me in lessons. alright?" he grinned as Lily lifted her face but stopped when he saw she was furious.

"I thought," she hissed at him and James felt scared for his life, " you sneaked that back into professor McGonagall's confiscation cupboard. how could you be so irresponsible?!"

James backed into a corner but his idiotic Gryffindor bravery and charm made him speak up.

"Well, Lily, I was a bit busy with you last night, but I mean, of course the next time I have a drunk girl on my hands I will of course leave her to go willingly try and get detention". Lily went red again and snatched the cloak, before storming out of his room, leaving him alone to his thoughts.

"Merlin," he sighed, "wait til they hear about this. Moony's gonna go insane, Padfoot will be immensely proud and I'll probably get some sort of award for dedication or something. merlin, seven years, seven years of flowers, chocolates, songs, money, offers of anything and all I had to do was pour a little firewhiskey down her. someone's gonna name something after me, but whatever this is I'm gonna go down as the most hard-working guy in the world, to convince Lily Evans to come on a date with me - an more! I'll be a household name before the year's out"

A/n: found this chapter really fun but I got a little teary at the end when I think about what he wanted to go down as- most hard-working guy in world, the guy who got lily potter- when I think about what he actually became a household name because of- dad of the Boy-Who-Lived.